I am very new to AutoCAD 2000 or just AutoCAD itself. How can I learn this asap ?

it would be difficult for you to understand many things, unless you know mechanical drawing & it's conventions.

Recommendation - learn mechanical drawing as high priority along with AutoCAD. AutoCAD will not help you learn mechanical drawings, but mechanical drawings will help you learn AutoCAD.

well like many have said go to school. I went through the locale tech college. The book I learned from was AutoCad 2000 A Step by Step Approach from AUTODESK written by

Terry T. Wohlers ISBN 0-02-668589-2 student edition

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. Cost is over $50 and is a 1152 page book. You would have to have the software to learn this course and AutoDesk has a student edition 60 day trail. Autodesk software is expensive. I have AutoCad Desktop Land Development with Civil Design and Survey - Cost $7000. This was part of my Geographic Information Systems Technology degree course. I also could teach it to you. Or you can buy TruboCad Software at Best Buy for About $100. If you have the AutoCad book you can do alot of it on TurboCad 7.0 It is a start for doing any drawings Mechanical, Electronic. house design or other.

If its a legal copy ie you have the code for the program you can ask autoocad for an acrobat reader dpf.file, this a free service, great programe to learn from scratch,

Hai,

AutoCad is basic designing tool,moreover it is not so difficult,nowadays nobody is using autoCad,it is useful only in 2D diagrams.Better you learn other designing softwares like PRO/E,CATIA ANSYS,SOLIDWORKS,UNIGRAPHICS etc.

learn through an institute

Obviously a training institution!

-:)